Home for Christmas is a seasonal album released exclusively in
the United States by American boy band *NSYNC. The album was
released on November 10, 1998, following the success of their
debut album. The album was certified double platinum in the U.S.,
and to date, and has sold 2,713,000 copies in the U.S. as of
December 2012. The album has sold over 4 million copies
worldwide.

The Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling trio Nickel
Creek Chris Thile (mandolin/vocals), Sara Watkins
(fiddle/vocals), and Sean Watkins (guitar/vocals) officially
reunites for the first time since its 2007 self-described
“indefinite hiatus” with the album A Dotted Line, followed by a
tour of the US in support of the Eric Valentine-produced album,
which includes the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass and Newport Folk
Festivals.

As Nickel Creek’s 25th anniversary approached, the band members
decided they ought to mark it in some way, so they got together
to write music in Chris Thile’s apartment last year. They ended
up with six new co-written songs, which they eventually took to a
Los Angeles studio, along with one tune by Thile, one by Sean
Watkins, and two covers: Sam Phillips’ “Where Is Love Now” and
Mother Mother’s “Hayloft. ” There they worked with Valentine
(Queens of the Stone Age, Smash Mouth), who had produced Nickel
Creek’s previous album, Why Should the Fire Die?.

“We were excited every day to be there,” Sara Watkins says.
“Having grown up singing together, there is something natural
about our voices and it’s really fun to harmonize. Our voices
have come to match each other’s really well. Sean and I are
siblings, and Chris is about as close to a sibling as you could
get. ” Sean Watkins continues: “It feels more natural and easy
than it ever did, by far. Getting to spend time alone with our
own musical personalities has helped us mature. ”

Radiosurgery is the seventh studio album by American rock band
New Found Glory. It is the band’s final studio album to feature
founding guitarist Steve Klein. To follow up predecessor Not
Without a Fight (2009), the band began writing new material
during their stint on the 2010 Honda Civic Tour. After
self-producing a set of demos and contacting long-term record
producer Neal Avron, the quintet went on to record the album in
Avron’s home recording studio over a period of three months in
2011. The quintet set out to write an album that paid homage to
classic punk rock records that first inspired them to form a band
during the 1990s. Listening extensively to the likes of early
Green Day and Ramones, New Found Glory strove to create a sound
that could “bridge the gap” between old and new generations of
the genre.
The album title is a reference to the actual medical procedure
radiosurgery, with the lyrics directly influenced by a troubled
divorce suffered within the band. Radiosurgery was written as a
concept album about the different emotions an individual goes
through after a separation, including feelings of regret,
sadness, and insanity. The band looked up several brain
surgeries, settling on Radiosurgery, using the idea that instead
of using the procedure to remove a tumor from the brain, it could
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Wandering Spirit is the third solo album by Mick Jagger. Released
in 1993, it was his only solo album release of the 1990s.

Following the The Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels (1989), Jagger
began writing new material for what would become Wandering
Spirit. In January 1992, after landing Rick Rubin as co-producer,
Jagger recorded the album in Los Angeles over seven months until
September 1992, recording simultaneously as Keith Richards was
making Main Offender.

Jagger kept the celebrity guests to a minimum on Wandering
Spirit, only having Lenny Kravitz as a vocalist on his cover of
Bill Withers’ “Use Me” and bassist Flea from Red Hot Chili
Peppers on three tracks.